| European cuisine: 1. Hoang Gia. In the area of the park, Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.913 2. Heritage Halong Restaurant in the Heritage Hotel,
Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.020 3. Halong Plaza Restaurant in the Halong Plaza Hotel
Tel: 033. 845.810 4. Halong Restaurant in the Halong Hotel
Tel: 033. 846.321 5. Bachdang Restaurant in the Bachdang Hotel
Tel: 033.846.330 • Chinese Restaurants: Quan Hai Lau
Next to Baichay Tourist Wharf
Tel: 033.847.037 The restaurant has 250 seats, (in different rooms,) it offers menu service with Chinese dishes and a Chinese chef. • Seafood specialty restaurants: 1. Sea Food Restaurant in Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.822 2. Thu Huong Restaurant, in Halong Street, Baichay
Tel: 033.845.142 3. Bin Bop Restaurant in group 10, zone 1, Tran Hung Dao Ward
Tel: 033.627.686 4. Noi Nho Restaurant, Tran Hung Dao Street
Tel: 033.825614 5. Bien Xanh Restaurant, No. 8 Le Thanh Tong Street
Tel: 033.825112 Apart from the restaurants on the mainland, customers can contact the floating restaurants if they want to have an appetizing meal on the sea:
Bien Mo floating Restaurants, No 1 and No 2, belong to Quangninh Marine Products Export Company. Customer reception at 35 Bentau Road, Halong
Tel: 033.828951; 825196
Fax: 033. 826683
Visitors can also arrange with the tourist boat owners to have an appetizing meal aboard ship. • Specialties: arca, oysters, shellfish - "Shellfish supermarket" at Caidam area, 2km from Baichay Tourist Wharf. It is an attractive place for tourists in the evening.
- Next to Long Tien Pagoda (near Halong Market), open most of the night. • Popular rice and noodle restaurants: (with seafood) - On the lower part of Vuondao slope, near Baichay Post Office. - Along Hangnoi Street, Bendoan area and LongTien Pagoda. • Cafes: Apart from bars and cafes in the larger hotels, there are many other cafes: - Trung Nguyen Café No 1, Nguyen Van Cu Street, Halong City. - Trung Nguyen café No 2, Cong Doan Hotel, Halong Street, Baichay. - Thang Long Hotel: House on Stilts café, "ruou can" (rice wine drunk out of a jar through pipes).
Tel: 033.847276 - Noinho Café, 10 Tran Hung Dao Road, Halong City
Tel: 033.628027, 033.629128. There are numerous cafés and refreshment locations in Halong Street (Baichay) and Le Thanh Tong Street (Hongai).
Seafood specialties:
Like other coastal areas of North Vietnam, Halong has a wide variety of seafood specialties. The most popular are: - Arca: Lives under mud and has two shells, it is as big as a cup and it can be steamed, grilled or made into soup. "Ruou ngan" (arca wine) is a specialty of Halong, which is highly nutritious and simple to process. - Sopuncuchlac (sa sung): are varieties of sea worm that live in the sand and are about 4 cm in long, with tiny veins running lengthwise. This species is peculiar to Halong. After processing the fresh sopuncuchlac it should be stir-fried with celery and leeks or grilled. It goes well with beer drinking, especially as a noodle consommé. - Holothuriodiac: is referred to as sea ginseng. There are two kinds, black and white. It looks like a cucumber with a soft body. It is prepared with pork, chicken, and bamboo shoots and dried pigskin as a dinner dish. - Sepia esculenta: is a kind of large cuttlefish weighing up to 2kg., which can be prepared with leeks, garlic leaves or boiled. The fresh Sepia esculenta can be dried, grilled or fried with sweet and sour source. It goes well with beer and is makes a good present for friends after a trip. - "Blood" shellfish: has been a famous seafood specialty in Indochina for some years. It can be steamed with beer, fried or boiled and eaten with pepper-salt. - Teredo: lives in the aegiceras and mangroves, mostly at the foot of the mountains. Opening two hard and sharp shells reveals the teredo's meat. It is prepared with egg and flour or used for soup and is a popular dish. Besides these sea products, there are the usual seafood specialties such as: shrimp, crab, garruppa fish, pomfret fish, threadfin fish etc. |
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